Hosta ‘Sum and Substance’
Height: 30″; spread: 5′
Zone: 2
Shade to Partial Shade
Drought tolerant once established Hostas are toxic to pets
$20Original price was: $20.$16Current price is: $16.
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This hosta is of considerable size, with leaves that can be chartreuse to gold depending on exposure to the sun. These heart-forming leaves can grow up to 20 inches long. Blooms are light lavender, bell-shaped, and typically arrive in late summer.
Throughout this site, the following are used as guidelines for watering established plants:
These truly xeric plants can live with our 12 inches of natural annual precipitation and only need a winter watering during a multi-year drought, but they will thrive with a monthly watering. Overwatering will kill some of these.
These plants are adapted to intermittent deep
watering with soil drying to a depth of a few inches between waterings. Watering frequency may be every couple of weeks during the active growing season and maybe only one winter watering for optimal care.
These plants need regular watering somewhat like a bluegrass lawn so that
they never dry to depth in the root system during the active growing season, and need occasional winter watering to prevent root dessication and resultant plant
death.
About sizes of our plants:
Sizes indicated with a # are roughly the equivalent in gallonage; so a #2 is about a 2 gallon pot size; b&b stands for balled and burlapped.
